p. 155 | Battle for Universal Dominion

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 15, 1879

Battle for Universal Dominion.

Under this heading a contemporary asks: To whom is Afghanistan ultimately to belong? If it is, as some of our savants tell us, not worth our keeping, Russia will certainly absorb it sooner or later. All the larger states are either absorbing their smaller neighbors or being absorbed themselves; while no small states are being created. Meanwhile, as the Standard points out, the disease of Social Democracy is eating out the very life of most of the large European states. Nihilism is at work in Russia, Socialism in Germany; Austria if not a sick man is certainly not a healthy one; France may be said to be always ready for revolution at a week's notice; Italy, the spoilt child of Europe, is fretting for a toy she cannot get, and the symptoms of the throes of 1848 are everywhere discernible.